Show I r r FEDERAL FARM FACTS j y Hundreds of millions of dollars are being loaned to cooperative marketing organizations and Individual Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual farmers on the basis of warehouse receipts Warehousemen Issuing these receipts are licensed under the United States warehouse ac act The entire nUre agricultural outlook as of the beginning of December is reported favorable Sheep and hO s are re in better financial condition condition condition condi condi- tion while the cattle and dairy in industries ip- ip point to some prospect of Improvement The bureau of plant industry Ind tty which studies diseases of crops and their cure c cuYe re has such a varl varied d program program program pro pro- gram that it requires more than 2000 over half of them doing field work The United d States Stated contains contains' con t ins ins' th the 4 o largest corn producing region in inthe inthe Inthe the world according to John R R. Mohler chief of the tho bureau of ani- ani ma l industry Yet we use only I ani-I I about tenth one-tenth of ot this product directly di directly directly di- di as human food The res rest real goes for the development of ot livestock live lIve- stock Nearly livestock owners inthe in inthe inthe the country have have- pledged themselves themselves themselves them- them selves to use purebred sires exclusively exclusively in their breeding operations They own more than half a million animals and a million poultry Jw Birds generally gene allY are friends of the farmers says the department of ot agriculture For Instance twenty- twenty five flYe kinds of birds are known to feed teed on tI a clover wee weevil wee 11 twenty- twenty five on the potato beetle thirty thirty- six on th the codling moth six forty-six on the gypsy moth nine forty on I horseflies and 20 on on l af hop hop- p- p I pers I Prospects Prospects' are are ra liti that t the the gross income income In Income in- in come from agricultural products In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States for the crop year 25 1924 may reach approximately 00 according to the annual an an- annual an annual nual report of the late Secretary of ot Agriculture Wallace It was 11 In 24 1923 and in 1921 l Several cases for collecting ex excess excess excess cess profits made on wool d r ng the war are expected to come up for trial in the federal courts In Inthe Inthe inthe the next few months on hs Less than half halt haltof of of- our corn crop reached maturity before the first killing frost this year Usually about 91 SI per per cent r reaches aches 1 before frost f After Atter eighteen years of uninterrupted uninterrupted wart warfare re against the tho cattle tick counties out of originally originally nally infested haVe been freed froni front federal quarantine O Of this number number num- num ber are absolutely tely tiCk tick fr free |